April 2017 Chapter Meeting Minutes

This meeting was held at the Rochester Mills Beer Company. There were about 50 people in attendance.

Jeremy Verbeke and Steve Vigneau chaired the meeting. It was called to order at 7:03 PM.

Minutes of the previous meeting were not read

Award Presentation: Jeremy Verbeke, on behalf of CRAMBA and the entire local mountain biking community recognized Mark Senyk with an appreciation award for his many years of volunteerism maintaining the trails. Pete Kresmery, CRAMBA’s TC from Stony Creek added this, “Mark is my “Go-to” guy. He always seems to be available to lend a hand, even when it’s too hot to be out there in the woods, he’s there. I’m able to “bounce” ideas off of him, especially while we’re riding the trails.”

Major Trail updates and Trail Day Announcements

Addison Oaks County Park

Roger Class is our new TC for Addison

Please note, June 4th the trails will be closed to mountain bikers due to a trail running event.

Bald Mountain

Clinton River Park Trails

150 ft board walk over marshy area will be constructed by volunteers from LL Bean funded in part by LL Bean and Back to the Beach.

May 6 is the first trail day

Columbus County Park. Don Miller III has volunteered to be CRAMBA’s trail coordinator for this trail. Thank you Don!

Holly-Holdridge. Cori Chesnutt said the first trail maintenance date is June 10. They may have one prior to that depending on trail conditions and will promote it once the date has been set.

Orion Oaks County Park.

Ortonville Recreation Area

Pontiac Lake Recreation Area

River Bends Park

Ruby Campground

Seven Lakes State Park

Stony Creek Metropark. Steve Vigneau introduced Katie Kowalski. He updated these minutes as follows: “CRAMBA is working with Huron-Clinton Metroparks on Stony Creek in support of reaching the goals outlined in the five year plan. Katie Kowalski, Volunteer Services Supervisor, was in attendance at the meeting, and we are working closely with her on this project. We are looking to grants, including those from REI, to support this work.Mountain bike trail supporters, who turned up at the Stony Creek Master Planning meeting a year ago, were key in getting these improvements in the Master Plan which should be good for all of us.”

Sony Creek Skills Park. Dave Schall has done a good job with cleanup and housekeeping on this younger age usage trails.

Foundation Trail – Holly High School

Genesee County Park

Bike Patrol

CRAMBA has 49 active bike patrollers for 13 trails

Spring training event tentatively set for April 29 (full day – CPR, first aid, trail ride)